Les mis Quote by Victor Hugo

“Certainly they appeared utterly depraved, corrupt, vile and odious; but it is rare for those who have sunk so low not to be degraded…

— Victor Hugo

...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables

— Victor Hugo

“If they had had a different neighbour, one less sel-absorbed and more concerned for others, a man of normal, charitable instincts, their desperate state…

— Victor Hugo

“The bad thing about terrible misfortunes, the kind that tear us apart and appear to be unendurable, is that those who suffer them believe…

— Javier Marías

“The public craves disaster. Don't understand it myself, but the more tragic, the more intriguing. And this catastrophe has it all. Death, destruction, melodrama.…

— Marian Cheatham

“Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.”

— Joseph Campbell

The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a…

— A. C. Bradley

“real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is, rather, much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“There must surely be much more to be said than the mere recounting of an incident: about the loves and hates of my people;…

— Es'kia Mphahlele

“So here at last were the first lines of the story that was later to come clear, a story of spite and bigotry, too…

— Mary Stewart

“But where is the antidote for lucid despair, perfectly articulated, proud, and sure? All of us are miserable, but how many know it? The…

— Emil Cioran

“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather…

— Barbara Pym